Socially Conscious Shops Sweep Soho

Refinery29 struck gold this past spring when it introduced Save Fashion -- a pop-up shop housed in Manhattan's Port Authority that stocked excess wares from a great grouping of designers at sample sale prices. It didn't hurt that the independent fashion porthole likewise threw a seemingly endless stream of shopping parties ... no small feat considering it's so far from Midtown. Well, get ready, as Save Fashion part deux is soon to hit Soho -- at Inven.tory's stomping grounds at 237 Lafayette to be exact -- and the wares up for sale are sure to be just as good if not better.

“From November 13-22 we’ll be selling only the very best wares from our favorite designers—Band of Outsiders, Vena Cava, Sophomore, Steven Alan, Wren, Rogan, Rag & Bone, and more!—all at up to 90% off, all in one place, with new stock added daily,” Refinery 29 says of the sale. Even better? Proceeds will go to benefit the organization Charity: Water. And speaking of shops with socially-conscious heads on their shoulders, while in Soho don’t miss newly opened Here/Nau/NYC over on Mercer Street. The brand new boutique “will carry products from several environmentally minded companies, including shoes from Timberland and Toms, organic dresses and sweaters from Stewart + Brown, bags made of recycled truck tarps from Freitag and the sleek, athletic designs of Nau,” says the New York Times. Not to mention the store interior itself is constructed from objects “entirely rooted in New York City’s waste stream—fallen tree limbs found on the street, timber and metal pipes from derelict Brooklyn factories and piles of discarded cardboard boxes—so that when the store closes, at least the garbage won’t be new.” Now that’s consumption with a conscience.